[Oh, he has secrets from Lalo. Secrets for days that he doesn't want coming out.
It's not as if he didn't see Lalo sitting there. He saw him. But he sees Lalo in a lot of places where he isn't, and his hope was that this was yet another of those instances. His mind panicking and inventing danger where it isn't. He may have been assured Lalo was gone, that Lalo wasn't a problem anymore, that they were safe, but he'd been told that before and it had been wrong. In the back of his mind, that danger was always there.
Apparently this time, that danger wasn't just imagined. He forces his expression to brighten, an almost apologetic smile on his face as an effort to lighten the mood Lalo's very presence ruined.]
Hey, there's no secrets between us, right? Confidentiality and all.
[Whether that applies here or not, that's another story, and not one he wants to argue with Lalo about at the moment. In fact, the last thing he wants to do is spend any time near Lalo! He would rather bolt and take his chances with any consequences or get lost or anything else! But he's frozen to the spot and so instead--]
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It's not as if he didn't see Lalo sitting there. He saw him. But he sees Lalo in a lot of places where he isn't, and his hope was that this was yet another of those instances. His mind panicking and inventing danger where it isn't. He may have been assured Lalo was gone, that Lalo wasn't a problem anymore, that they were safe, but he'd been told that before and it had been wrong. In the back of his mind, that danger was always there.
Apparently this time, that danger wasn't just imagined. He forces his expression to brighten, an almost apologetic smile on his face as an effort to lighten the mood Lalo's very presence ruined.]
Hey, there's no secrets between us, right? Confidentiality and all.
[Whether that applies here or not, that's another story, and not one he wants to argue with Lalo about at the moment. In fact, the last thing he wants to do is spend any time near Lalo! He would rather bolt and take his chances with any consequences or get lost or anything else! But he's frozen to the spot and so instead--]
How do you take it?